💖 It's Totally Okay To Avoid Fiction With Subject Matter That Makes You Uncomfortable, Disgusted,

Every time I hear someone say "This character is digusting and I hate them!" I put them on my favourite characters list.

Every time they say "This show is disgusting! Don't watch it!!" I put it on my watchlist.

Every time someone says "I can't believe someone would draw something like this! It's disgusting! This person needs to be in jail!!" I make even more art about that thing.

I won't let them suppress me anymore.

Every time you want to make art but don’t due to external pressure some asshole with too much power already gets stronger.

Conversely every time you want to make art and do (regardless of skill or reach) some asshole with too much power gets weaker.

The proof of this theory lay in the seemingly infinite “I don’t like this so it’s bad” industrial complex. Rob them :)

I'm gonna say it.

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.

Honestly? Mario jump

I'm sorry but saying "don't write dark or taboo fiction or at least keep it private because it might trigger someone or someone might get off to it." is exactly like saying "don't talk about the abuse you suffered because it might trigger someone or someone might get off to it."

It is the exact same thing. Telling someone they aren't allowed to talk about their own lived experience because some random stranger might be triggered, made uncomfortable, or even aroused by it is unbelievably fucking disgusting.

Whether someone is writing dark/taboo fiction to cope or not is 100% irrelevant because someone else's trauma is not your business, and you can't know.

You shouldn't tell a victim to never talk about their trauma, so you shouldn't tell people what they can and cannot write about, because at the end of the day, you don't know and it's not your business. Block and mute things/people you don't want to see, and move the fuck on with your life.

I keep seeing people saying things like, “If you like this you need therapy cause it makes me uncomfortable!!” And the most COMMON retaliation I’ve seen to this is, “Well you’re assuming everyone can get therapy/therapy is for everybody!” And actually I don’t think that’s the right comeback to that

I think the right comeback to that is, “are you saying you support conversion therapy?”

I’ve gone to therapy for YEARS. A good therapists job is not to make you “normal” but to make you the best version of yourself. There is a REASON that in order to be diagnosed with a mental illness it must cause some amount of distress and disruption to your life, personally. People don’t to go therapy just for being weird, they go because something about their life or their brain is making things difficult and upsetting for them, and they want to learn how to deal with that.

If your version of therapy is just “this harmless thing you like makes me, personally, uncomfortable, and therefore must be wrong - so you must go to therapy to become more like me” - than you don’t want people to be their best selves. You want them to go to conversion therapy, so they will be more like you, because you think that you’re the pinnacle of normalcy and anyone who is not like you must be Bad™️ and require Fixing™️.

What a handsome fella... I'm sorry

yes! i do like [problematic thing]! and unfortunately i am under no obligation to defend my interests to strangers on the internet. good day and thank you for your time

so much care put into housing this aging spider. why are my eyes wet

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